Polytechnic Heights, known as Poly by locals, is a neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, located on the southeast side of the city.
Initially developed in the 1850s, the area experienced a golden age in the 1930s as a place for faculty housing for Texas Wesleyan University.
The area became more ethnically diverse because of the Civil Rights Movement, as many middle class African Americans migrated from the Stop Six and Glenwood neighborhoods.
(This process and its effects on race relations and crime were analyzed by sociologist Scott Cummings in his book Left Behind in Rosedale, in which the neighborhood was identified pseudonymously as 'Rosedale'.
[1]) During the 1990s the neighborhood experienced an influx of Hispanic residents and a substantial decrease in crime.